Actors/Nation-state / APT/Europe

APT28

G0007APTRU · Russia

AKA SNAKEMACKEREL · Tsar Team · Pawn Storm · TG-4127 · STRONTIUM · Swallowtail · ITG05 · ATK5 · Group 74 · Grizzly Steppe · Sednit Group

Microsoft: Forest BlizzardCrowdStrike: FANCY BEARESET: SednitKaspersky: SofacyMITRE: G0007Proofpoint: TA422PwC: Blue AthenaSecureworks: Iron Twilight

Russian military intelligence cyber-espionage group attributed to GRU Unit 26165.

Targets25

Sectors10

Threat types2

GIRs covered0/480

Active since2007

Also tracked as

9 vendor names · 11 other aliases

Open Rosetta Stone

CrowdStrike

FANCY BEAR

ESET

Sednit

Kaspersky

Sofacy

Mandiant

APT28

Microsoft

Forest Blizzard

MITRE

G0007

Proofpoint

TA422

PwC

Blue Athena

Secureworks

Iron Twilight

UNATTRIBUTED ALIASESSNAKEMACKERELTsar TeamPawn StormTG-4127STRONTIUMSwallowtailITG05ATK5Group 74Grizzly SteppeSednit Group

Victimology

Geographic footprint · 25 countries

origin · Russiatargeted countries · 25

ASIA · 6

Armenia · Iran · South Korea · Kazakhstan · Malaysia · Uzbekistan

AMERICAS · 2

Argentina · Brazil

EUROPE · 17

Belgium · Belarus · Switzerland · Germany · France · United Kingdom · Croatia · Hungary · Latvia · Montenegro · Netherlands · Poland · Romania · Serbia · Sweden · Slovakia · Ukraine

Sectors targeted

10 of 40

Government100 actors Defense72 actors Aerospace59 actors NGOs & Dissidents56 actors Energy / Utilities59 actors Media & Journalism49 actors Transportation31 actors Hospitality33 actors Private Sector (generic)29 actors Extractive Industries8 actors

Tactics, techniques, procedures

Threat types + MITRE ATT&CK mapping

THREAT TYPES

DIS · DisinformationESP · Espionage

MITRE ATT&CK · 76 techniques

Reconnaissance · 4

T1589.001Credentials T1591Gather Victim Org Information T1596Search Open Technical Databases T1598Phishing for Information

Resource Development · 3

T1583.001Domains

Initial Access · 7

T1189Drive-by Compromise

Execution · 6

T1047Windows Management Instrumentation

Persistence · 6

T1037Boot or Logon Initialization Scripts T1037.001Logon Script (Windows)

Privilege Escalation · 1

T1068Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Credential Access · 9

T1003OS Credential Dumping

Discovery · 3

T1057Process Discovery

Lateral Movement · 5

T1021.002SMB/Windows Admin Shares

Collection · 9

T1005Data from Local System T1025Data from Removable Media T1039Data from Network Shared Drive T1113Screen Capture

Exfiltration · 2

T1030Data Transfer Size Limits T1567Exfiltration Over Web Service

Impact · 1

T1498Network Denial of Service

Command And Control · 7

T1001.001Junk Data T1071.001Web Protocols T1071.003Mail Protocols

Stealth · 13

T1014Rootkit T1036Masquerading T1036.005Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location

GIR coverage

0 / 480 requirements satisfied

Open matrix

No GIRs mapped yet for this actor.

Open data

Machine-readable exports of this profile

JSON · RESTActor recordFull profile via the public v1 API STIX 2.1Intrusion-set bundleDeterministic ids · techniques + targeted countries ATT&CK NAVIGATORTechnique layer76 techniques · layer format 4.5

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